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SILENT WITNESS - DOUBLE DARE
BBC-1 / Monday 17 September 2007 @ 9.00pm
Nikki is called to a car crash which has left one woman burned to death and another in hospital, badly burned, in the fourth story of the forensic drama series. Nikki is horrified to learn that the two women were a police protection officer and recently released Anna Holland. Anna had goaded her boyfriend, Michael Drage, into brutally murdering Paula Colebrook in front of her children four years ago. Nikki had argued in the trial that Anna had not actually taken part in the murder and, as a result, Anna controversially got four years whilst Drage went down for life.
The post mortem reveals that Anna was stabbed before the car crash so it seems someone was after revenge, and the debate of Nikki's original findings rages again, very publicly. However, another ghost from Nikki's past proves an unexpected and welcome ally. DI Dan Jennings, who worked on the original case, is back for the internal police investigation. Anna had been kept at a police safe house, her identity a secret, and her murder suggests someone knew how to get to her.
Nikki learns that photos of Anna's charred corpse have been leaked to the press. Could things get any worse? It seems so, when Anna's mother arrives to identify her and reveals evidence that suggests Anna was guilty of the murder after all.
The police visit the original victim's husband, Jason Colebrook, to exclude him from their enquiries. Colebrook is adamant that he now believes in Anna's innocence, based on Nikki's evidence. He has long forgiven Anna for her role and even visited her in prison. He claims he knew nothing of her whereabouts.
But after an unsettling visit to Michael Drage, Nikki confides her doubts to Dan. What if she got it wrong at the original trial and Anna confessed all to Jason Colebrook? If he knew she was guilty after all, he could have killed her in revenge...
Emilia Fox plays Doctor Nikki Alexander and Hugo Speer plays DI Dan Jennings. The cast also includes William Gaminara as Professor Leo Dalton, Tom Ward as Doctor Harry Cunningham, Danny Midwinter as DI Tom Glynn and Leigh Lawson as Victor Alexander.
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